That's the glorious thing about music, is it not? Always in flux and forever open to interpretation. The melody itself provides emotion a place to dwell, and a means to soar to higher heights. If he is feeling nostalgic, a simple tune is enough to lend it an escape.

Indeed. How often in his youth had he been admonished for becoming too "sentimental", too hopelessly attached? Eventually he had learned to shroud such feelings behind a gruff outer facade. Yet no matter how he tried to deny them, there were those who had always possessed the ability to see through that wall, to disregard his stern words and sharper barbs and bask in the wellspring hidden beneath. What a salve that had been for his loneliness as a boy.

A double-edged sword, always, yet one which has endured all these long millennia. An unshakeable devotion even at the end of it all.

Mayhap that is part of the reason Emet-Selch had been one of the first to pledge his support of their new Elidibus all those years ago. In all its many forms, 'tis a language they both understand, and one to which he continues to lend his voice via the lush and emotive timbre of the violin.